Driven Quotes - Page 4

• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  Nancy Lopez

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

  Patty Duke

  New York, Insomnia, Shut Up

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.13, Bantam

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• The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Truth Is

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• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

  Ellen Goodman

  Powerful, Mind, Tradition

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• I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Years, Play, Age

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 2, 2005.

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• I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

  Timothy Bottoms

  Giving, People, President

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• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

  Gale Norton

  Crazy, Hiking, Schedules

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• Never confuse activity with productivity.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose Driven Life, Activity, Productivity

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Games, Curiosity, Usual

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1969.

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• I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, Moving, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?

  Steven Knight

  Organization, People, Evil

  Source: deadline.com

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• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

  William Glasser

  Fun, Freedom, Survival

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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Clouds, Heaven, Vaults

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Rhododaphne: Or, The Thessalian Spell: A Poem”, p.119

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• My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Character, Sacrifice, Keys

  "Soft-centred". Interview With David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

  Kofi Annan

  Economic Globalization, Faces, Profit

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.68, Routledge

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• Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Romantic, World, May

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Desert, Prophet

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• I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Character, Action

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• President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

  Bianca Jagger

  Home, Texas, Office

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• Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Wish, Cleaning

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

  Thomas Moore

  Heaven, Brain, Glimpse

  Thomas Moore (1842). “Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance”, p.90

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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  Danica Patrick

  Differences, Lap, Honest

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